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February 8, 2024
Book Tour in March 2024
January 24, 2024
Michigan True Crime Symposium
I will be participating in the Michigan True Crime Symposium which will be held at the Art 634 event facility in Jackson, Michigan on Saturday, April 6th from 2-4 PM. The idea for this event came from my work on my podcast Tales of Southwest Michigan’s Past. In the course…
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January 6, 2024
True Crime Book Pre-Order Now Available
My new book ‘Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime‘ will be officially released on March 11th, 2024. I have now set up a pre-order link on this website here. You can pre-order your copy today, and I when I receive my stock from the publisher in March, I will send you…
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2024 New Book & Book Tour
On March 11th, 2024 my new book ‘Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime‘ is released. This is a collection of stories I began researching in 2021, and many of them took a considerable amount of time to piece together. They were written at a time when I was working on my…
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November 2, 2023
Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime
My first book ‘Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime‘ in the history genre is going to be released on March 11th, 2024 through History Press. It is a collection of true crime stories from Southwest Michigan during the Victorian era. The Victorian period is an era in world history spanning the…
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January 27, 2023
Some History of the Black Hand in Michigan
The Black Hand was a precursor to the mafia in the United States, and they primarily targeted the Italian immigrant population. Although they committed violent crimes, such as murder, bombings and kidnapping; these actions were all just moves in a larger game, which was intended to keep the Italian communities…
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January 7, 2023
Cheers to the New Year 2023: Looking Ahead
Cheers to the New Year 2023! I have several new projects in mind for the coming year. I still plan to continue my work on the YouTube channel to bring local history videos, however, I am going to be introducing a new series of videos on shorter individual historical profiles…
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January 5, 2023
2022 Milestones to Preserve History
In 2022, I was asked to join the board at the Battle Creek Regional History Museum. I signed a three year commitment to participate in helping to build the museum. When I jump into a project, I tend to commit myself entirely. So in 2022, I took on a lot…
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January 2, 2023
Season Two of my Podcast Begins!
Season two of ‘Tales of Southwest Michigan’s Past‘ began on January 1st, 2023. Many podcasters take the holidays off, or schedule a break at the beginning of the new year. I thought about this, and decided not to. As a quick recap, in season one I created a total of…
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January 1, 2023
Tales of Christmas Past was a Success!
On December 17th, I took part in the performance of Tales of Christmas Past at the Battle Creek Regional History Museum. This was a project that I worked of for about two months. I conceived of the idea to create a very special Christmas program at the museum in December,…
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